The Newest Baby Blanket

yup, i went and lost my mind and decided to start another baby blanket. this one i'm doing on the small round blue kk loom. i'm using Vanna's Choice yarn in brown and green. i bought 4 skeins of each color, so i better not run out! this time, i'm doing five or six long panels which i'm gonna seam together. don't ask me how. i was thinking about trying to crochet them. or maybe a mattress seam, although i'm not good at either of them. i could also do an i-cord and seam the panels to that. i'm sorta thinking of doing something big and chunky in black yarn so if it comes out too bad, it won't look that obvious.

don't mind the color in this pic. i don't know why it looks so washed out.


i'm just doing a flat knit stitch. its the easiest and fastest thing. but i'm playing around with the idea of doing something different for the two middle panels. we'll see how long it takes me to get these other panels done first and then i'll decide. i took this pic a few days ago. i'm done with this panel now. i'm just stuck on the bind off.

so far i've run across one major problem besides the question of how i'm going to seam it together. how am i gonna get the cast on and cast offs to look the same?! i did a cable cast on. looks like this:



it kinda reminds me of the chunky braid stitch. from all my research, there isn't a cable cast off. so now i'm stuck with two options. either i can do a different bind off on the bottom and just have two looks. or i can do a flat panel bind off and have a curly top and a straight bottom. it will give the blanket an obvious top and bottom, which would be kinda cool. i may just do that. i'm just waiting to hear back from the people on the loom list on yahoo. a lot of them are much more experienced loomers than me and i'm sure they'll have better ideas.